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Unknown fraudster

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 11121 Report
Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

2025-06-18

WCPO Cincinnati reported that a scammer impersonated its meteorologist Jennifer Ketchmark using AI voice cloning. A reportedly fraudulent Facebook account made friend requests and sent direct messages requesting money, using an AI-generated voice that mimicked Ketchmark's. The scam attempted to gain trust by sounding convincingly like her. WCPO warned viewers and urged reporting the fake account to Meta. No confirmed victims or losses were publicly reported.

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Incident 11421 Report
Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

2025-07-07

A Chicago-area Vietnam War veteran, Richard Lyons, reportedly lost $10,000 to a cryptocurrency scam that used purported AI voice cloning and fake social media profiles to impersonate Elon Musk. The fraudster allegedly convinced Lyons to invest in bogus cryptocurrency opportunities using fake voice memos, images, and spoofed caller IDs showing "Elon Musk." The scam reportedly involved dozens of messages and deepfake audio files that reinforced the impersonation.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Unknown scammer

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

  • Incident 1142
    1 Report

    Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

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Unknown scammer impersonating Jennifer Ketchmark

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

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Unknown deepfake technology developer

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

  • Incident 1142
    1 Report

    Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

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Entity

Unknown voice cloning technology developer

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

  • Incident 1142
    1 Report

    Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

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Jennifer Ketchmark

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

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Entity

WCPO Cincinnati

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

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Entity

General public of Cincinnati

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

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Entity

Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

  • Incident 1142
    1 Report

    Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

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Entity

Unknown voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

  • Incident 1142
    1 Report

    Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

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Facebook

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1112
    1 Report

    Scammer Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone of WCPO Cincinnati Meteorologist in Facebook Fraud Attempts

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Unknown scammer impersonating Elon Musk

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1142
    1 Report

    Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

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Entity

Richard Lyons

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1142
    1 Report

    Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

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Cryptocurrency investors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1142
    1 Report

    Chicago Veteran Reportedly Loses $10,000 in Purported Deepfake Cryptocurrency Fraud Posing as Elon Musk

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